Chicago History Minute

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Chicago History at Your Fingertips

A number of resources useful for students working on history homework are available online.

Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago

No project is complete without using this online resource, which includes A to Z entries, photographs with zooming capability, rich maps, interpretive digital essays, and a wealth of historical sources.

Chicago Daily News Photographs

Search more than 55,000 photographs of urban life taken between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of the city's leading newspapers. The collection is available online at the Library of Congress American Memory site